"I agree with /u/unsolvedparadox. If you're excited about learning something, doubledown on it - especially at your age. I love that talk, actually, and [reference it often.](https://www.youtube.com/watch...) Our why actually started pretty simply - we wanted to keep living like college students and working on projects we loved, indefinitely. So starting a company made sense for me and Steve. The "why" we quickly learned about reddit was something we'd both grown up with -- online communities -- the amazing things that happen between total strangers, possibly a world apart, when they come together in authentic ways. It happens every day on reddit, across thousands of communities on the platform, but we want to bring this to the entire world. We're working to spread empathy + understanding to as many people as possible -- people aren't just coming here because it sets the media agenda for the rest of the internet, it's because of the connection that happen when diverse people..."
- Alexis Ohanian